Jeopardy Vocabulary Leaders Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Civil Rights Movement Life in the 1960’s War in Vietnam Vocabulary Leaders Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
The rights that countries guarantee their citizens.
What are civil rights?
To remove from power
What is overthrow?
Competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to send people into outer space.
What is a space race?
A government program to help those in need.
What is welfare?
. Ending the separation of people by race or ethnicity.
What is desegregation?
African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus and go to the back.
Who was Rosa Parks?
He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and inspired many people with his courage and powerful speeches.
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
He said, “… ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
Who was John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or JFK?
He was the first person to orbit the earth in a space capsule during the “Space Race”.
Who is Yuri Gagarin ?
He created the Peace Corps, a program that sent volunteers to teach children, grow food, and help start businesses in countries around the world.
Who was President John F. Kennedy?
Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in this way of bringing change without using violence.
Who was nonviolent protest?
Successful non-violent event that led to the United States Supreme Court declaring that school segregation was illegal under the Constitution.
What was Brown vs. Board of Education?
Successful non-violent event that led to the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on buses was illegal.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Small groups of civil rights protesters that peacefully tried to show that segregation wasn’t legal anymore. .
Who were the ‘Freedom Riders’?
Non-violent protest that was used in 1960 by four African American college students to challenge the inequality of “whites only” sections in restaurants.
What was a ‘sit-in’?
They won the race to send the first person into space.
Who was ‘the Soviet Union’?
President Johnson’s government program that demanded ‘an end to poverty and racial injustice’.
What was the ‘Great Society’?
Kind of music that was the most popular with teenagers during the 1960’s?
What was ‘rock ‘n roll’?
The new way, or movement, that artists were using to express themselves.
What was ‘pop art’?
This generation changed the society and politics of the country in the 1960’s.
Who were ‘the baby boom generation’?
During the Cold War years of the 1950s and 1960s, the United States tried to stop the spread of ____________.
What is the “communism ”?
North Vietnam was governed by ________________, and South Vietnam was governed by ________________.
What is the North Vietnam is governed by ‘communists’ and South Vietnam is governed by ‘non-communists’?
In 1965, what did U.S. leaders decide to send to South Vietnam to help prevent the overthrow of their government by the communists?
What are ‘soldiers’?
Why did opposition to the war grow in the United States as the fighting continued?
What was ‘the cost of the war in dollars and in lives kept growing’?
How did people show their opposition to the Vietnam War?
What is ‘they took part in anti- war demonstrations and marches’?
Final Jeopardy For how many years were the U.S. troops fighting in Vietnam?
Final Jeopardy Answer What is ‘8 years’?